Belt-buckle.



M. D. MESEROLE.

BELT BUCKLE.

APPLICATION FILED HAY26, 1912.

Patented May 19, 1914.

"I ll UNITED STATES MILTON D. MESEROLE, OF

MENTS, TO THE JAMES F. MOLLOY (10.. OF NEW HAVEN,

RATION.

WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, .ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- CONNECTICUT, A COB-P- BELT-BUCKLE.

Application filed May 26, 1913.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 19, 1914.

Serial No. 769,891.

To H77 HllT/I/l it may concern lle it known that I, Mnxrox l). Mnsnnonn. a citizen of the United States. residing at \Yest Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful lmprovement in Belt- Buckles: and I. do hereby declare the following. when taken in connection with the :uW-ompanying drawings and thc characters of reference marked thereon to be a lull. clear. and exact description of the same. and which said drawings constitute part of this application. and represent, in-

Figure l a reverse view 116:] buckle contructed in accordance with my invention and shown as applied to a belt which it i adjusted to grip. Fig. 2 an edge view thereof. Fig. 3 a view thereof in central l ngitudinal section. a Fig. i a sectional 'view thereof in its open position and with the belt withdrawn. Fig. 5 a detached view of the buckle-lever blank. Fig. 6 a view in longitudinal section ol one of the modified forms which my improved buckle may assume.

My invention relates to an improvement in belt-buckles. the, object a simple. compact, reliable and convenient buckle of attractive appearance and coir stru ted with. particular reference to being adapted, without injury, to receive belt llill5 varying widely in thickness.

\\'ith these ends in view my invention consists in a buckle having certain details of ctmstruction and combinations of parts as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In carrying'out my invention as herein shown. l employ an oblong rectangular sheet-metal lmckle-l'rame 2, longitudinally and transversely crowned and formed upon its upper and lower edges with inwardly turned flanges 3 having); centrally arranged lugs -l perlorated for the reception of trunnions 5 f rmed at opposite points upon=and ucar thev l'ree end of the outer leaf or member (3 f a yielding lmckle-lcver t'ormed from a blank 7 t Fig. 5) folded transversely about midway of its length, and having its inner lea l' ot member 8 formed at its free end with a grippingedgc 9 which is engaged with the belt it) in position to force the same against the inner l'ace ot' the lmcklolrame 2 as clearly shown in Fig. 3. The buckle-lever is thus pivoted upon the inner face. of the being to produce I but-klofranm and the bend of the lever constitutes a spring for it. The outer member 6 of the buckle-lever is formed, as shown,

with ears ll located at opposite points upon 1 its edges and pertt'irated as at 12 for the re- 1 ception of the trunnions 13 of a fasteninglevcr l l by means of which the fixed end 15 of the belt 10 is secured in place. The construction thus far described is old and well known. My invention in particular consists in interposing a buffer of suitable description between the two members and s of the buckle-lever so as to adapt the same to yield more or less without being set, and thus injured, to provide for the accommodation of straps of diti erent thickness.

As shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4', the outer member 6 of the lever is struck outward to form a pocket It; for the reception of a butter in the form of a small rubber button 17 which is thus located between the members (3 and S of the buckle-lever and yields under the pressure of the gripping-edge 9 and member 8. more or less, according to the thickness of the strap.

Initially the buckle is constructed for thin belts. or belts of medium thickness, which impose little pre sure u on the button 17. in case. however. a thick belt should. be used, the button 17 yields and prevents the edge 9 of the member 3 from being set and thus I disqualified from again gripping a thin belt or a belt of medium thickness.

The modified construction shown by Fig. (l. illustrates the employment of a buffer in the form of a small helical spring 18 in the place of the rubber button 1?. ln the said modified construction also the fastening lever ll of the other figures. is replaced by i a permanently applied wire loop 19 through twhich the fixed-end J5 of the belt 10 is l l passed and folded upon itself and sewed by stitches 21 in the well known manner.

I claim 1"- In a belt buckle. the combination with the frame thereof, of a sheetmetal buckle lever folded upon itself and comprising an inner and outer 'leat normally separated from each other by an aceoinmodatitui space, the free end of the. said inner leaf having a gripping-edge which co-acts with the inner face of the said frame for gripping the webbind. and the outer leaf being pivotally onnectcd at its inner end with the said rame and provided with a pocket to increase the specification in th depth of the said space, and a buffer insertscribing witnesses.

0d into the said pocket and yielding to pro vide for the accommodation of buckle-straps MILTON MESEROLE' 5 of varying thickness Without setting the l W'itnesses:

leaves of the buckle-lever. LORENZO L. WILLIAMS.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this LEON M. MOLLOY.

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